When Hermenegildo Matus Corsi was born in 1885, in Chicapa de Castro, Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico, his father, Felipe Matus Salinas, was 28 and his mother, Antonina Lorei Pineda, was 27. He married Camila Lopez Saine on 16 March 1910, in Chicapa de Castro, Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1963, in his hometown, at the age of 78.